This cross-disciplinary study draws on both Theatre Studies and Sociology to examine the performance situations of Forced Entertainment's productions 'Bloody Mess' and 'The World in Pictures': What practices do participants employ to create the `space` and ´characters` in a performance? In what ways do the spectators become the actual ´players` in a performance? The book contains numerous interviews with Tim Etchells, founding member and artistic director of Forced Entertainment. In German with some English texts.